Address  dy  Col.  Edwin  A.  Sherman, 


OK  OAKLAND,  (  A  LI  KOHNT  A. 


DELIVERED  AT  MUSIC  HALL,  BOSTON,  SUNDAY  AFTERNOON,  OCT.  20,  1889. 


]\Ir.  Cliairman  aud  Citizens  of  Boston  : 

If  I  fail  to  meet  your  expectations  it  will  be  on  account  of  a  bad  cold, 
which  I  took  on  my  pilgrimage  to  Washington  to  attend  the  triennial 
conclave  of  the  Knights  Templar.  However,  I  trust  you  will  bear  with 
me,  though  I  shall  not  enter  into  any  argument  upon  this  occasion,  for 
I  believe,  like  Cromwell,  that  it  is  well  to  watch  and  pray  aud  keep 
your  powder  dry.  [A[)plause.j  I  sliall  not  speak  from  a  religious 
standpoint,  but  from  that  of  the  soldier,  the  citizen,  the  patriot,  aud  the 
free-mason.  [Applause.] 

In  the  lirst  place,  I  was  a  Boston  boy.  I  was  born  under  the  shadow 
of  the  Plymouth  rock.  Whatever  I  am  to-day  as  an  American  citizen, 
I  owe  in  great  measure  to  Boston,  this  home  of  my  early  boyhood. 
For  up  to  the  time  I  was  thirteen  ^^'ars  of  age,  entering  the  public 
schools  of  Boston  at  six,  all  the  education  I  ever  received  in  a  school  I 
received  in  Boston.  [Applause.] 

I  wish  to  pay  a  tribute  to  a  distinguislied  citizen  of  IMassachusetts, 
the  honorable  George  Bancroft,  to  whom  the  peo[)le  of  these  United 
States  are  indebted  that  the  flag  of  these  United  States  waves  over  Cal- 
ifornia.  When  he  was  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  a  Jesuit  [ilot  which 
resulted  first  in  the  murder  of  that  pioneer  missionary,  the  Rev.  Hr. 
Whitman,  then  in  Oregon  territory,  now  the  stale  of  Washington,  was 
discovered.  A  plot  was  entered  into  by  the  Jesuits,  among  them  Thither 
McNamara,  who  was  landed  from  the  English  frigate  Juno,  at  Santa 
Barbara,  by  which  Mexico  was  to  cede  to  England  in  payment  of  its 
indebtedness,  that  portion  of  its  possessions,  for  tlie  pui'iiose  of  [ilant- 
ing  an  Irish  colonv  there,  and  California  was  intended  to  be  an  Irish 
Roman  Catholic  colony.  But  tlianks  be  to  Go<l  and  the  foresight  of 


IIOMAXISM, 


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George  Jiaiicroft,  while  the  waves  of  war  broke  upon  the  borders  of 
Texas,  yet  nevertheless,  Lieutenant  Gillespie,  who  was  sent  overland, 
made  his  way  to  Mazatlan,  and  there  placed  his  orders  in  the  hands  of 
Commodore  Sloat,  and  on  July  7th,  1846,  he  lauded  at  Monterey,  and 
secured  California  to  the  American  nation  forever. 

I  left  home  when  a  boy,  and  made  my  way  to  Chicago.  I  was  the 
first  local  reporter  in  that  city  in  the  years  1843  and  ’44.  You  will 
remember  that  the  world  was  to  come  to  an  end  about  that  time.  Father 
Miller  had  so  prophesied,  and  I  thought  I  would  go  to  Chicago  before 
that  cataclysm  occurred.  Subse(piently  war  was  imminent  on  American 
soil  on  account  of  the  annexation  of  Texas.  Having  a  relative  who  was 
an  officer  in  the  United  States  army,  I  went  to  join  him.  I  did  not  meet 
him.  However,  I  entered  the  service  of  my  country,  and  of  only  about 
fifteen  persons  now  living  who  saw  the  first  and  last  gun  fired  of  that 
Mexican  war,  I  am  one. 

I  remember  in  coming  to  this  question,  in  which  you  are  all  so  deeph’’ 
interested,  (and  whose  echoes  we  have  heard  upon  the  shores  of  the 
Pacific,)  when  in  the  cit}’  of  Philadelphia,  in  1844,  the  fight  which  took 
place  when  the  Hibernian  engine  company  broke  into  a  school  house, 
threw  the  Bibles  out,  and  a  riot  commenced.  It  ended,  however,  in 
American  principles  being  triumphant,  and  in  sending  the  right  Con^ 
gressman  to  AVashiugtou.  [Applause.]  I  had  when  a  boy  drank  in 
the  spirit  of  patriotism  upon  the  fields  of  Concord,  Lexington,  Bunker 
Hill,  and  Dorchester  Heights,  where  such  noble  battles  were  fought  and 
the  Americans  were  successful  in  driving  the  hlnglish  from  Boston 

o  o 

harbor. 

During  the  Mexican  war,  there  was  circulated  among  our  army  prop¬ 
ositions  to  those  who  were  Roman  Catholic  soldiers  to  desert.  Those 
who  l)elonged  to  the  infantry,  the  cavalry,  the  artillery,  were  to  receive 
payment  in  lands  and  money,  and  eveiything  else  accordingl}’.  One 
man,  by  the  name  of  Riley,  deserted  before  hostilities  broke  out,  and 
others  followed  him.  Then  after  the  battle  of  Monterey,  and  after 
fifteen  thousand  men  under  an  armistice  were  allowed  to  pass  out  carry¬ 
ing  their  arms  with  them,  fifty  of  those  Roman  Catholic  deserters  led 
the  IMexican  army  out.  It  was  with  great  difficulty  that  our  men  could 
be  prevented  from  shooting  them,  but  the  armistice  had  to  be  kept. 
When  our  division  was  called  from  iMonterejq  and  Taylor’s  line  on  the 
Rio  Grande  to  go  to  the  South,  from  Vera  Cruz  to  the  City  of  ISIexico, 
we  found  ourselves  confronted  by  deserters  from  our  own  ranks — a 
complete  battalion,  known  as  the  Legion  of  San  Patricio  (St.  Patrick,'^ 
composed  of  deserters  from  our  army,  and  Riley,  a  brigadier  general 
commanding  them.  At  that  time  the  United  States  were  appealed  to 
and  they  removed  the  batteries  from  their  ships  of  war,  and  filled  therii 


22.  Sherman,  Edwin  A[llen].  Romanism,  the  Peril  of  Our  Country.  Address  by  Col.  Edwin  A. 
Sherman,  of  Oakland,  California.  Delivered  at  Music  Hall,  Boston,  Sunday  Afternoon, 
Oct.  20,  1889  [caption  title].  (Boston:  B.  F.  Bradbury),  [1889?].  8vo,  unbound,  [16] 
pages. 

125.00 

First  edition.  A  strident  anti-Catholic  pamphlet,  implicating  the  Jesuits  and 
the  Pope  in  the  assassination  of  both  Garfield  and  of  Lincoln  (as  well  as 
subsequent  attempts  to  rob  the  latter's  grave),  and  in  working  through  the 
agency  of  James  Blaine  to  effect  the  overthrow  of  the  U.S.  With  much  in  the 
way  of  vivid  if  questionable  anecdote.  Some  edge  soiling  and  a  little  wear;  a 
very  good  copy.  OCLC  notes  copies  at  GEU  &  PU  only. 


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with  provisions  for  starving  Ireland,  and  at  this  same  time  these  men, 
deluded  by  priests  of  their  faith  to  violate  their  oaths,  ungratefully,  in 
our  own  clothing  and  with  onr  arms,  at  the  battle  of  Chernbusco  near 
the  City  of  Mexico,  turned  upon  their  former  comrades  and  laid  them 
low.  It  was  impossible  to  estimate  the  feeling  of  onr  men.  Sometimes 
muskets  were  thrown  aside  and  simply  with  the  bayonet  alone  in  hand 
we  met  the  enemy  and  captured  over  sixty  of  these  deserters.  There 
came  an  armistice,  and  durino;  that  armistice  thev  were  dnlv  tried  by 
court  martial,  and  at  Miscoac  in  the  presence  of  both  armies,  we  hung 
thirty-two  in  good  order.  [Applause.]  Tims  in  my  early  life  I  learned 
these  lessons. 

Passing  through  Mexico  as  I  did  during  that  war,  I  learned  much  of 
that  then  priest-ridden  country.  This  was  soon  followed  by  the  dis¬ 
covery  of  gold  in  1848,  and  I  returned  to  Philadelphia  and  there 
organized  a  company  to  go  to  California,  sailing  to  Tampico,  and  cross¬ 
ing  the  country  to  Mazatlau,  and  thence  by  sea  to  San  Francisco.  We 
had  passports  to  carry  arms  through  Mexico,  granted  by  the  Mexican 
Minister  at  Washington.  Our  passports  were  signed  by  Buchanan,  who 
was  then  Secretary  of  State.  We  traveled  through  that  country  till  we 
came  to  the  city  of  San  Potosi.  We  secured  a  meson  or  hotel,  and  then 
started  to  go  around  the  town  in  a  body  to  see  the  sights.  This  was  a 
city  which  had  never  been  captured  during  the  Mexican  war.  Here  we 
met  this  same  Riley,  who  had  been  branded  on  his  right  cheek  with  the 
letter  D.  We  had  not  gone  far  before  we  found  there  was  a  commo¬ 
tion.  First  came  music  with  a  company  of  infantry  ;  after  them  came 
the  Bishop  in  his  carriage  ;  behind  him  came  the  rabble.  As  they  came 
along  every  person  was  compelled  to  kneel  in  the  street.  I  said  to  my 
company,  “You  need  not  kneel,  but  take  off  your  hats  as  a  token  of 
respect  to  the  customs  of  the  people.”  The  infantry  made  a  movement 
as  if  about  to  charge  u[)on  us,  and  our  pistols  naturally  were  held  in 
position  for  use.  The  Bishop  looked  out  of  his  carriage,  found  there 
w'as  trouble,  and  demanded  to  know  the  reason.  I  happened  to  be 
the  only  one  who  spoke  Spanish  of  our  party,  and  I  stepped  toward  and 
told  him  who  we  were,  and  that  we  had  permission  to  pass  through  his 
country  to  Mazatlau.  We  intended  no  disrespect,  but  if  the  attempt 
was  made  to  cause  us  to  fall  upon  our  knees  they  would  pay  for  it  with 
blood,  for  Americans  knelt  only  to  God.  [Applause.]  A  dispensation 
waSt granted  ns  by  the  Bishop,  excusing  us  from  kneeling,  and  the  pro¬ 
cession  passed  on. 

In  the  course  of  time,  on  the  24th  day  of  May,  1849,  we  celebrated 
the  Queen’s  birthday  by  entering  the  harbor  of  San  Francisco. 
[Applause.]  And  thus  we  commenced  the  develo[)ment  of  that  mightv 
empire  of  the  Pacific,  the  fairest  land  the  sun  shines  u[)on,  and  though 


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no  MAS  ISM. 


you  may  love  old  rugged  New  England,  and  I  love  the  place  of  my 
birth,  but  when  I  see  the  sun  through  the  Golden  Gate,  it  shines  upon 
those  Delectable  Mountains  spoken  of  by  Bunyan  in  Pilgrim’s  Progress, 
and  it  is  a  land  of  paradise  to  pass  from  this  world  to  the  next. 

Time  rolled  on,  and  w^e  had  periodically  something  of  this  question 
coming  up  before  us,  but  the  enemy  was  not  strong  enough  to  carry 
their  point.  However,  at  the  present  time,  they  have  massed  their 
forces,  and  getting  control  of  both  Republican  and  Democratic 
parties, —  (Rome  being  a  unit,  divides  on  every  question  to  unite 
together  that  the  church  may  be  the  winner  in  the  end,) — our  country  is 
now.  thoroughly  sapped  and  mined,  and  there  is  a  false  security  among 
the  people  that  there  is  no  danger.  I  tell  you  that  we  are  living  upon  a 
volcano.  I  hold  here  in  my  hand  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians.  >t  is  a  complete  military  organization, 
ami  in  everv  county  and  town  throughout  these  United  States,  under 
the  priest,  b}*  his  direction,  the  whole  of  the  Roman  Catholic  population 
of  the  male  persuasion  are  being  drilled  and  disciplined.  I  obtained 
possession  of  this  onl}’  last  year,  when  they  met  at  Louisville  and  com¬ 
pletely  organized  their  national  compact.  I  have  made  a  copy  of  a  por¬ 
tion  of  it,  and  if  you  will  o])tain  a  copy  of  it  it  will  give  you  startling 
information.  Battalions,  regiments,  companies,  eveiy where,  they  are 
compelled  to  join  this  military  organization.  There  is  one  thing  about 
our  country  that  people  do  not  understand.  There  are  no  better  census 
takers,  no  better  ones  to  estimate  the  value  of  real  estate.  The}^  have 
their  men  among  the  priestliood.  One  priest  is  sent  to  gather  all  the 
data.  He  leaves  it  with  his  successors  to  take  his  place,  and  thus  it 
moves  on  and  on  continuously.  You  have  a  corps  of  the  most  subtle, 
astute,  com[)lete  conspirators  that  God  ever  permitted  this  country  to 
be  cursed  with,  [Applause]  and  it  is  ever  active  in  carrying  forward 
its  plots  to  undermine  and  overthrow  the  free  institutions  of  this  great 
republic. 

I  am  going  to  relate  some  facts  that  are  as  positive  and  as  certain  as 
that  the  sun  shines.  There  was  no  way  by  which  the  Roman  Catholic 
church  could  accomplish  its  ends  and  advance  its  interests,  and  hasten 
the  time  when  it  could  seize  possession  of  this  country,  until  it  could 
plunge  this  country  into  a  civil  war.  Chief  Justice  Taney,  of  the 
United  States  Siqireme  Court,  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  by  his  Dred 
Scott  decision  started  the  wheels  of  the  chariots  of  war  in  miction.  The 
whole  movement  of  the  rebellion  was  a  Roman  Catholic  conspiracy  in 
the  beginning.  And  a  distinguished  brother  mason,  now  dead,  honored 
by  the  masonic  fraternity,  our  Moses  and  lawgiver,  Albert  G.  INIackay, 
(God  bless  his  memoiy) ,  born  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  was  true 
and  loyal  to  the  end.  The  Ro[)e  was  the  only  crowned  head  in  Europe 


THE  TEllIL  OF  OFF  COUX'IHY. 


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to  recognize  tlie  Southern  Confederacy.  Jeff.  Davis’  sister  was  a 
superioress  of  a  convent  in  Bardstown,  Kentucky.  When  tlie  division 
of  the  Democratic  party  in  1800,  came  in  (Jiarleston,  South  Carolina, 
that  was  the  first  movement.  Then  followed  secession  in  Hiberni.a 
Hall,  in  that  city,  and  Bisho[)  Lynch  of  Charleston,  Father  Ryan  of 
Georgia,  and  Father  Hubert  of  New  Orleans,  bv  direction  of  the 
Pope,  consecrated  the  flags,  the  arms,  the  weapons  of  the  rebellion  of 
those  who  were  Catholics,  and  absolved  them  from  their  oath  of 
naturalization  and  allegiance  to  the  United  States  government.  And 
why?  There  was  a  man  loved  as  no  other  man  was  ever  loved  in  these 
United  States;  a  man,  in  my  opinion,  equal  to,  if  not  superior  to  him 
who  was  Father  of  his  Country,  who  was  selected  as  a  victim  four  years 
before  he  was  ever  nominated  to  the  presidency,  Abraham  Lincoln. 
[Applause.]  It  fell  to  my  lot  at  the  fime  of  his  funeral  in  New  York, 
as  chairman  of  a  committee  of  investigation,  to  follow  up  and  ferret  out 
if  possible,  the  source  from  which  this  hatred  came.  Why  was  it? 
What  had  Lincoln  done  that  Rome  should  demand  his  life?  The  causes 
were  these,  and  the  proofs  are  beyond  question,  and  perfectly  satis¬ 
factory  :  It  was  found  that  the  Pope  had  determined  upon  a  general  ^ 
colonization  scheme  to  take  possession  of  the  Mississippi  valley  early  in 
the  fifties.  There  was  a  man  of  the  Roman  Catholic  priesthood,  born 
in  Canada,  who  had  been  selected  to  lead  that  emigration  and  to  plant 
it  in  Illinois.  He  had  money,  and  his  people  followed  him  first  to 
Chicago,  and  then  to  Kankakee  county,  where  he  laid  out  a  town,  St. 
Ann’s,  and  built  a  church.  In  course  of  time  he  fell  out  with  his 
Catholic  bishop,  O’Reagan,  and  among  other  things  the  French  who  had 
settled  in  Chicago,  determined  to  have  a  church  of  their  own.  The 
Irish  outnumbered  them,  and  they  had  no  chance.  They  selected  a 
place,  built  a  church,  sent  to  France  and  bought  the  richest  vestments, 
the  best  pictures  and  furnishings,  and  made  ready  to  go  into  the  church. 
The  next  Sunday  morning  they  were  to  celebrate  mass.  When  they 
aiTived  there,  there  was  no  church.  I  have  heard  of  stealing  a  red-hot 
stove,  but  I  never  before  heard  of  stealing  a  church,  but  it  was  gone,  and 
had  been  moved  away  on  wheels  to  another  part  of  the  city.  They 
found  it  filled  with  the  Irish  Roman  Catholics,  and  an  Irish  priest  saying 
mass.  They  could  not  get  in.  They  waited  their  time  until  the  priest 
should  come  out,  and  he  treated  them  with  insult,  and  drove  them  away. 
They  then  went  to  the  Bishop,  but  received  the  same  treatment,  for  he 
had  taken  their  rich  vestments  and  had  them  in  his  own  house.  At  last 
it  became  necessary  that  they  should  appeal  to  the  head  at  Rome. 
Father  Chiniquy  sat  down  and  wrote  to  Louis  Napoleon,  in  France,  and 
also  to  the  Pope  in  Rome. 

The  Emperor  wrote  to  the  Pope,  and  the  Pope  sent  out  his  nuncio. 


(i 


nOMAXISM, 

Cardinal  Bedini,  who  came  out  there,  and  tlie  Bishop  was  fiually 
removed.  But  ])efore  that,  matters  had  taken  such  shape  that  they  deter¬ 
mined  to  destroy  Chiniquy.  He  had  the  manhood  to  defend  his  rights, 
though  a  Roman  Catholic  priest,  as  an  American  citizen.  He  purchased 
the  property  with  his  own  money  and  that  of  the  members  of  his  own 
church.  They  built  it  together.  It  was  theirs  ;  the  title  was  in  him. 
After  failing  to  accomplish  their  purposes  through  the  courts,  though 
they  reduced  him  to  poverty,  a  most  damnable  plot  was  made  for 
destroying  him  ;  a  criminal  charge  was  brought  against  him,  and  as  it 
could  not  be  tried  in  Kankakee,  a  change  of  venue  was  taken,  and  it 
was  to  be  tried  in  Urbana,  Champagne  county,  Illinois — Abraham 
Lincoln  being  of  the  counsel.  While  waiting  for  a  tardy  juror,'  five 
priests  in  black  robes  entered  at  a  side  door,  and  took  a  seat  provided 
for  the  witnesses.  There  they  ’sat,  and  with  their  hands  devoutly 
clasped  upon  their  breasts,  looked  as  if  it  was  a  most  solemn  event. 
They  came  to  give  their  aid  to  a  most  damnable  plot.  Before  long, 
Lincoln,  looking  over  and  seeing  this  row  of  priests,  comprehending 
their  object,  and  bending  over  the  table  to  the  opposing  counsel,  in  a 
loud  whisper,  intended  to  be  heard  by  every  one  in  the  room,  said, 
‘•Norton,  Norton.”  “What  is  it?”  said  Norton.  “I  have  a  question 
to  ask  you  in  confidence,”  said  Lincoln.  “What  is  it?”  said  Norton. 
“What  have  all  them  fellows  there  got  men’s  credentials  for?  ”  [Ap¬ 
plause.]  It  was  not  in  that  exact  language,  but  it  was  language  that 
gentlemen  will  understand  by  themselves.  It  broke  the  spell  upon  the 
court.  In  a  few  moments  a  laugh  ran  through  the  court.  Judge  Davis, 
himself,  laughing  heartily  upon  his  bench.  But  Lincoln  had  accom¬ 
plished  his  purpose.  He  had  broken  that  spell  which  could  be  done  in 
no  other  way.  He  uncovered  the  villainy,  and  the  result  was  that  the 

priests,  fearful  of  being  lynched,  fled  from  the  city.  The  next  morning, 

« 

knowing  that  the  case  would  be  dismissed,  he  would  not  permit  it  with¬ 
out  his  consent,  and  therefore  addressed  the  court  and  the  persons  there 
present  in  these  words  :  (I  have  followed  this  matter  clear  through,  and 
this  is  the  starting  point  of  the  enmity  of  Rome  to  Abraham  Lincoln.) 
He  said  : 

“May  it  please  your  honor,  gentlemen  of  the  jury  and  American  citi¬ 
zens,  this  conspiracy,  I  am  aware,  has  failed  of  its  efforts,  but  I  have  a 
few  w'ords  which  I  wish  to  say.”  He  went  on  and  depicted  the  career 
of  Father  Chiniquy,  how  he  had  been  unjustly  prosecuted,  and  then  in 
conclusion,  said  :  “As  long  as  God  gives  me  a  heart  to  feel,  a  brain  to 
think,  or  a  hand  to  execute  my  will,  I  devote  it  against  that  power  which 
has  attempted  to  use  the  machinery  of  the  courts  to  destroy  the  rights 
and  character  of  an  American  citizen.”  [Applause.] 

A  day  or  two  after  that.  Father  Chiniquy  went  to  have  a  settlement 


THE  PEIllL  OF  OFF  COUXTJIY, 


with  Mr.  Liucolii.  ‘‘  IIow  mucli  do  you  tliiiik  you  owe  me?”  “1  don’t 
know.”  “Well,  you  are  broke,”  says  IMr.  Lincoln.  “I  am,”  said 
Chiuiquy,  “but  I  want  to  have  you  draw  up  a  note,  and  I  will  sign  it 
and  pay  you  as  1  can,  for  I  must  know  what  are  my  liabilities.”  “  How 
much  do  3^ou  think  you  owe  me?  ”  “  Well,  I  owe  Judge  Osgood  $1200, 

Judge  Paddock  $1500  ;  you,  perhaps  $2000  ;  but  I  must  have  a  settle¬ 
ment  and  know  what  1  have  to  work  for.”  Mr.  Lincoln  turned  around 
and  drew  up  a  note,  and  hearing  sobbing  behind  him,  he  said,  “  Father 
Chiuiquy,  what  are  you  crying  about?  You  ought  to  be  the  hapi)iest 
man  alive.  You  have  beaten  all  your  enemies,  and  come  out  triumph¬ 
ant ;  they  have  lied  in  disgrace,  and  you  ought  to  be  the  happiest  man 
alive.”  Father  Chiuiquy  placed  his  hand  upon  his  shoulder,  and  said, 
“I  am  not  weeping  for  myself,  but  for  you,  sir.  They  will  kill  you; 
and  let  me  tell  you  this,  if  I  were  in  their  place  and  they  in  mine,  it 
would  be  my  solemn,  sworn  duty  to  take  your  life  myself,  or  lind  a  man 
to  do  it.”  Mr.  Lincoln  turned  around,  and  with  a  peculiar  look  iqion 
his  face,  said,  “Father  Chiuiquy,  please  sign  my  death-warrant.”  That 
was  a  simple  promissory  note  for  $50.  Lincoln  received  his  note  and 
vanished.  Now,  I  hold  the  note  given  to  me  by  Father  Chiuiquy. 
[ilxhibiting  it. — Applause.]  He  was  offered  one  hundred  pounds  for  it 
in  London,  but  in  view  of  what  I  had  done  in  rendering  him  assistance 
in  ferreting  out  this  thing  from  the  beginning,  he  gave  it  to  me,  and  I 
had  it  lithographed  and  sent  him  the  lithograph,  and  kept  the  original 
note.  This  was  the  beginning.  When  Lincoln  started  on  that  tour  of 
political  discussion  with  Douglas,  the  entire  Roman  Catholic  influence 
was  thrown  in  favor  of  Douglas.  His  wife  was  a  Roman  Catholic. 

There  was  a  greater  question  before  the  people  caused  by  the  admis¬ 
sion  of  the  state  of  California  into  the  Union.  When  we  came  to 
organize  the  state  government  and  form  our  constitution,  my  maiden  vote 
was  cast  for  the  delegates  to  that  state  convention  which  met  in  Mon¬ 
terey,  m  September,  1849,  and  in  that  constitution  we  declared  that 
California  should  have  no  involuntary  servitude  or  slavery  save  for 
criminal  offences.  [Applause.]  The  admission  of  the  state  of  Cali¬ 
fornia  was  the  cause  of  those  principles  coming  up  which  divided  the 
Republican  and  the  Democratic  parties  into  two  factions.  The  polit¬ 
ical  wheel  was  set  in  motion,  and  though  Abraham  Lincoln  got  the  pop¬ 
ular  vote,  Stephen  A.  Douglas  got  the  legislature.  The  next  turn  of 
the  wheel  gave  Lincoln  the  nomination  for  the  presidency.  Then  from 
that  very  moment  came  the  releasing  of  every  Roman  Catholic  from  his 
allegiance  to  the  American  government.  They  followed  it  through.  Our 
countrymen  north  and  south  were  hurled  against  each  other,  the  great 
mass  of  them  Protestants,  as  it  was  intended  to  be.  The  scum  of 
Europe  now  tramples  over  the  graves  of  our  dead  countrymen,  north 


8  no  MAXIS  M, 

and  south  alike.  Mr.  Lincoln  was  contiuuall}^  in  receipt  of  these  threats 
of  assassination  from  the  time  he  entered  into  the  defence  of  Father 
Chiniquy.  He  was  continually  warned  from  time  to  time,  but  at  last 
knowing  that  the  opportunity  was  favorable,  they  could  make  use  of 
their  instrument,  and  Abraham  Lincoln  must  die. 

Of  the  men  engaged  in  that  conspiracy,  Dr.  Samuel  Mudd  was  the 
chief  director.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  as  was  also  John  Wilkes 
Booth,  Mrs.  Surratt  and  her  son  ;  and  in  the  Judge  Advocate  General’s 
office  at  Washington,  there  may  be  seen  the  Roman  Catholic  medal 
taken  from  Booth’s  neck.  A  short  time  before  that  Booth  had  received 
the  sacrament  from  Archbishop  Spaulding,  of  Baltimore,  and  almost 
identically  at  the  same  time  the  Pope  sent  from  Rome  the  arms  and 
accoutrements  in  exact  counterpart  of  the  papal  guard  at  Rome,  and 
when  Archbishop  Spaulding  died  he  was  buried  with  military  honors  by 
the  papal  guard  of  Baltimore.  In  this  conspiracy  every  one  was  a 
Roman  Catholic,  either  a  Jesuit,  priest,  or  layman,  who  made  every  effort 
to  conceal  it.  I  do  not  state  this  simply  upon  my  own  authority  ;  but 
refer  you  to  the .  official  report  of  the  trial  before  the  military  com¬ 
mission.  Read  it  carefully  and  you  will  find  that  all  along  the  line  it 
was  for  the  interest  of  the  Catholic  church  that  even  Mrs.  Surratt 
should  die.  [Cries  of  “That  is  so,  yes.”]  Rome  is  a  sow  that  eats  her 
own  pigs.  [“Yes,  yes.”]  Her  son,  John  H.  Surratt,  if  he  had  been 
captured,  would  have  been  hung  at  the  same  time,  but  he  had  gotten 
the  horse  for  Booth  to  escape,  and  waited  until  he  heard  the  shot.  His 
escai)e  had  been  prepared  by  Archbishop  Bourget,  of  Montreal,  Canada. 
He  went  there  first,  and  returned  to  do  his  part  of  the  work,  and  he 
made  his  escape  and  was  protected  by  that  Archbishop.  He  was  placed 
in  the  charge  of  Father  Charles  Boucher  of  the  parish  of  St.  Leboire, 
Canada  ;  there  he  kept  him  for  several  months  ;  finally  he  took  him 
to  Montreal,  to  another  house  of  the  Archbishop,  and  there  they 
kept  him  until  they  got  ready  to  take  him  away.  They  took  him  in 
a  carriage  at  Montreal  to  a  small  steamer  which  conveyed  him  down  to 
Quebec,  from  whence  he  sailed  on  the  steamer  Peruvian  to  Liverpool, 
and  thence  to  Havre  de  Grace,  and  from  there  went  to  Paris  and  Rome, 
and  enlisted  in  the  Pope’s  body-guard.  Rome  now  thought  she  had  him 
secure,  but  through  Father  Chiniquy  our  government  got  trace  of  him. 
A  detective  was  put  upon  the  track,  and  when  the  Pope  found  that  our 
government  knew  where  he  was,  he  made  a  pretence  of  being  willing  to 
give  him  up,  but  permitted  him  to  make  his  escape.  But  he  was  cap¬ 
tured  at  Alexandria,  Egypt,  and  brought  back  on  the  United  States 
war- ship  Swatara,  and  tried  in  the  Court  of  the  District  of  Columbia. 
It  was  a  pity  that  the  civil  law  had  taken  the  place  of  the  military.  A 
jury  that  was  never  intended  to  agree  was  drawn,  and  this  Jesuit  priest. 


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the  accessory  before  and  after  the  fact,  so  far  as  John  11.  Surratt  was 
concerned,  had  the  effrontery  to  come  directly  from  Montreal,  appear  in 
that  very  court  and  give  this  very  evidence  I  am  now  giving  you  ;  and  if 
you  turn  to  Volume  2  of  the  trial  of  John  H.  Surratt,  you  will  find  all 
that*I  have  said  to  you  to  be  the  exact  truth.  The  investigation  of  this 
matter  has  been  the  work  of  years  of  the  most  patient  research,  and  at 
an  expense  of  thousands  of  dollars  mostly  to  myself  and  a  few  others. 
The  hatred  against  Lincoln  continued  after  his  death.  Among  all  the 
tributes  of  the  nations  of  the  earth,  of  societies  and  organizations,  nearly 
one  thousand  that  are  bound  in  a  book  by  the  government,  resolutions 
of  sympathy  and  consolation  that  came  for  the  American  ))eople  ;  and 
among  them  there  were  some  from  thirty  and  more  masonic  lodges  of 
Europe,  supposing  that  he  was  a  mason,  who  draped  their  lodges  in 
black,  in  France,  Italy  and  elsewhere  ;  yet  you  may  examine  that  book 
from  beginning  to  end — not  from  one  single  Roman  Catholic  society  is 
there  the  first  resolution  of  sorrow  at  this  damnable  act.  Then  still 
farther,  Rome  determined  to  destroy  all  evidences,  if  possible.  Her 
hatred  goes  into  the  ground.  She  believes  in  cremation  from  the 
beginning,  but  not  of  her  own  members ;  and  to  destroy  the  body  of 
Lincoln  she  plotted  its  robbery.  I  had  visited  his  tomb  in  1876,  at 
Springfield,  Illinois,  and  saw  the  dangers  to  which  it  was  exposed,  and 
there  are  some  of  us  who  have  taken  a  solemn  oath,  (it  rests  upon  us 
to-day)  not  only  to  perpetuate  his  memory,  but  to  preserve  his  remains. 
[Applause.]  It  became  necessary  to  keep  a  guard  there,  but  notwith¬ 
standing  this  precaution,  they  broke  open  the  sai’cophagus,  ran  out  the 
cedar  coffin,  and  were  about  to  break  into  it  when  our  friends  were  at 
hand.  The  ghouls  were  captured,  and  every  one  was  a  Roman 
Catholic ;  they  were  tried  and  each  sentenced  to  serve  out  his  time  in 
the  state  penitentiary  of  Illinois.  [Applause.]  Then  fearing  it  might  be 
robbed  again,  the  sarcophagus  was  replaced  and  the  body  was  placed  in 
the  side  of  the  walls  of  the  mausoleum,  but  the  rascally  contractor  who 
built  that  monument  had  put  in  pieces  of  wood,  and  these  rotted  and 
made  it  unsafe,  though  the  body  was  not  exposed.  It  was  then  deter¬ 
mined  to  remove  it  and  place  it  in  the  front  of  the  shaft  and  there  bury  it 
beside  his  wife.  There  it  was  kept,  and  four  years  ago  when  I  came 
on  there  to  hold  memorial  services,  I  brought  earth  from  the  tomb  of 
Edward  Baker,  at  Lone  Mountain,  San  Francisco,  and  mingled  them 
with  that  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  then  took  some  back  with  me,  and 
the  bodies  of  the  Union  soldiers  of  California  rest  under  the  same  sort 
of  earth  as  that  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  A  few  years  ago,  in  order  to 
place  the  bodies  securely  where  they  could  not  be  longer  disturbed,  they 
were  placed  beneath  the  floor  of  the  catacomb,  and  the  resting  place 
sealed  with  Roman  cement ;  and  there  in  a  mass  of  stone,  in  an 


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BOJJAXLS.y, 

adamantine  casket,  to  remain  until  the  angel  of  the  resurrection  shall 
smite  itandsay,  “come  forth.”  The  lock  that  was  put  there  is  still  there, 
and  I  hold  the  key  of  the  broken  lock  of  Lincoln’s  tomb.  [Applause.] 

And  now  to  the  work.  I  have  said  this  subject  needs  no  argument. 
It  needs  action.  The  moral  cowardice  of  the  American  people  at  <his 
time  is  contemptible.  [Applause.]  Eighty  per  cent,  of  the  employes 
in  the  departments  at  Washington  are  Roman  Catholics.  They  control 
your  telegraphic  system.  They  are  upon  your  newspapers,  and  prevent 
honest  reports.  And  there  is  not  a  square  politician  belonging  to  either 
of  your  parties  that  dare  stand  openly  as  an  American  citizen.  [Ap¬ 
plause.]  It  was  my  pleasure  to  be  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republi¬ 
can  convention  which  met  at  Cincinnati,  in  1876,  when  for  the  first  time 
in  the  history  of  America  it  became  necessary  for  both  political  parties 
to  engraft  in  their  platforms  the  honest  and  earnest  protestations  against 
ecclesiastical  interference  with  our  public  schools.  It  was  my  pleasure 
to  draft  the  article  that  went  into  the  Republican  platform.  That  was 
carried,  and  we  were  successful.  We  nominated  our  man,  we  defeated 
a  most  popular  man,  and  our  country  was  saved. 

Let  me  go  back  a  few  years.  When  Italy  was  fighting  for  its  unity 
with  Rome  for  its  capital,  as  it  had  a  right  to,  and  when  a  strong  strug¬ 
gle  had  to  be  made,  in  all  the  aid  and  subscriptions  that  went  to  Rome 
there  went  an  adventurer  and  other  volunteers  from  Ireland  to  fight  for 
the  Pope,  and  for  real  or  pretended  gallantry  at  the  Gate  of  Del  Rocca, 
that  man  was  created  a  chevalier  of  St.  Michael  and  an  honorary  aide 
de  camp  to  Pope  Pius  IX.  That  man  came  to  this  country  in  time,  and 
during  our  war,  through  Governor  Seymour  of  New  York,  and  Archbishop 
Hughes,  he  was  created  a  commissioned  officer  in  the  United  States  army. 
His  father-in-law  was  born  a  Roman  Catholic,  baptized  a  Roman  Catholic, 
confirmed  a  Roman  Catholic,  whose  father,  though  a  Presbyterian,  five 
years  before  his  death  became  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  the  mother  and 
father  are  buried  side  by  side  in  the  Catholic  cemetery  at  Brownsville, 
Pennsylvania.  Every  one  of  that  man’s  sisters  is  a  superioress  of  a  con¬ 
vent,  or  nun,  excepting  one  who  married  and  died  in  Baltimore,  and  the 
brother  knelt  by  the  side  of  his  dead  sister  while  the  thundering  cannon 
at  Washington  were  fired  when  Grover  Cleveland  was  being  inaugurated. 
That  man  who  had  given  his  own  daughter  to  Rome,  and  whose  children 
were  baptized  in  that  faith — that  man,  whose  apostasy  from  the  faith  is 
not  believed  in,  because  to  bring  forth  works  meet  for  repentance, 
knowing  a  thing  to  be  wrong,  he  will  not  certainly  allow  his  children  to 
be  educated  in  that  wrong  ; — that  man  who  insulted  the  American  people 
by  having  placed  before  them  at  the  National  Republican  convention  the 
Roman  Catholic  priest,  Father  Charles  O’Reilly,  the  treasurer  of  the 
Irish  National  Land  League ; — that  man  wa»  made  the  chaplain  of  the 


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National  Republican  convention  which  nominated  James  G.  Blaine.  I 
am  for  protection,  but  I  believe  in  protecting  our  country,  the  American 
public  schools,  and  in  sending  Americans  only  to  represent  the  Ameri¬ 
can  republic  abroad.  [Applause.] 

Think  of  it  one  moment — there  is  Chili,  who  has  been  struggling  for 
liberty  from  Rome  for  half  a  century,  and  she  has  measurably  suc¬ 
ceeded. 

When  in  Washington  I  felt  somewhat  inspired  by  what  I  saw  there — 
that  monument  to  Washington  which  reaches  toward  heaven.  Thanks  be 
to  the  masonic  fraternity  who  laid  the  foundation  and  set  the  cap  stone 
upon  it.  They  protected  the  honor  and  saved  the  American  republic 
from  the  disgrace  of  a  stone  being  inserted  in  it  sent  by  the  Pope.  It 
was  broken  and  thrown  into  the  Potomac.  Some  good  people  dislike 
secret  societies.  Then,  in  the  name  of  God,  direct  your  forces  against 
the  Jesuits.  When  the  twenty-three  thousand  Knights  Templars  paraded 
in  Washington  the  other  day,  there  was  a  moral  force  representing  three- 
fourths  of  a  million  of  masons  that  are  ready  when  necessary  to  lay 
down  the  trowel  and  grasp  the  sword  in  defence  of  the  free  institutions 
of  America.  [Applause.]  We  love  our  God,  we  love  our  country,  we 
love  the  Bible.  It  is  our  light  from  heaven,  God’s  best  gift  to  man,  next 
to  women,  (I  do  not  mean  the  Roman  harlot),  [Laughter  and  applause,] 
for  without  women  there  would  have  been  no  revelation.  • 

Now,  that  country  of  Chili  is  following  our  course,  laboring  to  keep 
the  priests  out  of  the  public  schools,  separating  them  entirely,  endeavor¬ 
ing  to  make  Chili  the  representative  nation  of  South  America,  with  a 
free  country,  totally  unpriest-ridden, — and  yet  a  man  not  two  years  an 
American  citizen  is  sent  to  represent  these  American  people  in  this 
repnblic.  [Shame,  shame.] 

Again,  it  is  only  about  two  years  since  I  traveled  through  the  Repub¬ 
lic  of  Mexico,  and  we  have  another  of  that  same  sort  sent  to  that 
country.  I  wish  we  had  in  our  country  the  same  rule  as  they  have 
there.  I  have  traveled  safely  and  alone  where  murders  used  to  be 
committed,  and  where  the  crosses  are  not  one  hundred  yards  apart  to 
indicate  the  spots  where  they  occurred.  Thanks  be  to  President  Diaz, 
himself  a  mason,  there  is  not  one  convent  in  Mexico  to-day.  I  cannot 
say  how  great  is  the  reform  that  has  taken  place  there.  Where  people 
were  compelled  to  live  in  concubinage  because  unable  to  pay  the  exor¬ 
bitant  fees  for  marriage  exacted  by  the  priests,  now  there  is  good  order, 
for  the  Mexican  government  married  up  all  those  people,  made  their 
children  legitimate,  and  fixed  a  fine  upon  the  priest  who  dares  marry  a 
person  before  the  government  does.  [Applause.]  That  is  the  con- 
dition  there. 

When  Grover  Cleveland  was  made  president  he  chose  a  Roman 


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ROMANISM. 


Catholic  for  one  of  his  cabinet,  Garland — and  for  Assistant  Attorney 
General  the  infamous  Zach  Montgomery,  who  has  issued  the  most 
villainous  pamphlet  against  the  public  schools.  Neither  of  the  great 
political  parties  have  the  manliness  or  courage  to  follow  their  convic¬ 
tions.  Their  pledges  are  worse  than  sand,  and  there  is  but  this  to  do  : 
you  have  got  to  rise  to  your  feet  and  go  to  work.  I  believe  in  praying,  in 
trusting  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  all  that ;  but  I  believe  in  the  holy 
spirit  of  American  liberty  which  inspired  our  fathers  to  use  powder 
and  ball  in  defence  of  human  freedom.  [Applause.]  You  have  but 
just  entered  upon  this  work.  Your  Committee  of  One  Hundred,  thanks 
be  to  God,  I  consider  them  more  noble  than  those  of  the  Roman 
legions  commanded  by  the  centurions.  Our  country  everywhere  is 
sapped  and  mined.  It  requires  the  utmost  vigilance  and  watchfulness 
to  follow  the  enemy.  They  are  of  the  serpent  race — they  will  burrow  in 
the  sand,  or  strike  you  from  above. 

Again,  too,  as  I  said  in  the  early  part  of  my  address,  how  do  they  go 
to  work?  People  wonder  how  it  is.  In  the  first  place  their  system  is 
this:  emigration.  How  is  that  emigration  conducted?  It  must  be  a 
forced  one.  Not  that  they  ever  expect  to  free  Ireland  from  Great 
Britain,  but  if  they  can  pull  Johnnie  Bull’s  tail  and  make  him  mad,  he 
will  come  down  with  his  paw,  crowd  them  out,  and  force  the  emigration 
here.  They  never  expect  to  free  Ireland  from  the  British  crown. 
[Applause.]  And  let  me  tell  you  this,  Ireland  will  never  be  free  so 
long  as, she  is  led  by  a  Pope.  Here  comes  the  emigrant.  The  first 
thing  for  him  to  do  is  to  renounce  allegiance  to  the  Queen  of  Great 
Britain,  to  whom  he  never  had  any.  He  is  the  subject  of  the  Pope. 
Where  they  follow  the  law  they  take  out  the  first  papers.  Now,  that 
man  must  be  employed.  The  priests  own  the  people  precisely  as  the 
slaveholder  owned  the  negroes.  He  must  be  employed.  The  munici¬ 
palities  of  the  country  are  the  places  where  this  employment  is  to  be 
found — and  now  he  goes  to  work  digging  up  paving  stones  or  putting 
them  back  again,  or  in  some  other  work  at  the  city’s  expense,  but  he  is 
employed.  They  watch  him  very  close.  He  is  the  one  who  earns  the 
bread  which  the  priests  eat.  The  next  thing  he  must  do,  if  he  is  an 
able-bodied  man,  learn  military  tactics.  If  the  natiouaT  guard  of  the 
country  is  open  to  him,  they  will  make  use  of  the  militia,  for  it  saves 
the  expense  of  an  armory  and  equipments,  &c.  Where  they  do  not  have 
it,  then  independent  companies  are  formed.  Every  metropolitan  bishop 
must  look  to  this,  and  he  must  be  attended  with  military  power  ;  and 
everywhere  where  there  is  a  building  to  be  consecrated  or  a  corner-stone 
laid,  there  the  military  must  appear,  and  the  American  flag  be  disgraced 
by  flying  along  with  that  damnable,  contemptible  rag.  Following  the 
rules,  a  company  is  formed.  This  is  the  nucleus  of  a  regiment.  That 


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company  is  kept  full  precisely  in  the  same  manner  as  when  Prussia  was 
humbled  by  Napoleon  the  great,  she  filled  her  army.  Prussia  was  not 
allowed  to  have  an  army  of  over  twenty-five  thousand  men.  What  did 
she  do?  She  put  every  able-bodied  man  into  that  twenty-five  thousand, 
and  Germany  stood  upon  her  feet.  She  was  able  to  cope  with  France 
or  any  other  government.  So  precisely  in  that  same  manner  they  are 
working.  You  take  the  police  organizations  of  our  cities  with  their 
arms — are  they  reliable?  [‘‘•No,  no,  ”]  They  manipulate  your  conven¬ 
tions,  and  your  public  schools  where  tliey  cau  ;  ‘‘they  aim  for  the 
destruction  of  the  orovernment,”  and  thev  breed  faster  than  grass- 
hoppers.  [Laughter.]  It  is  hard  to  make  a  windmill  run  by  water. 
[Laughter.]  But  in  these  matters  which  so  greatly  concern  us,  in 
which  the  whole  country  is  interested,  it  is  necessary  that  you  should 
instruct  your  children.  Take  them  up  to  the  state  house,  where  are 
those  grand  old  flags  which  have  been  carried  amidst  the  flames  of  shot 
and  battle ;  take  them  there  and  teach  them  the  lesson  of  patriotism  and 
devotion  to  their  country.  Let  it  not  be  a  mere  form  or  cipher,  but  let 
them  understand.  Teach  them  when  the  time  comes,  though  their 
fathers  be  dead  and  buried,  every  flag  shall  leap  to  the  front,  borne  by 
true  American-blooded  children.  [Applause.]  This  nation  has  been 
buried  in  sorrow,  blood  and  tears.  We  have  had  enough  of  it.  We 
want  no  more  war,  we  want  no  more  revolution,  we  want  no  anarchists, 
we  want  no  socialists,  and  we  want  no  Jesuits.  [Applause.]  W’^hen  1 
was  in  Washington  the  other  day,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  shaking  hands 
with  the  president,  and  I  am  glad  that  I  had  the  first  shake,  because  he 
is  to-day  shaking  hands  with  the  Roman  Catholic  organization  thei’e  for 
the  opening  of  the  University.  The  time  is  come  when  the  American 
people  by  their  representatives  in  legislature  should  make  their  laws  so 
fast  and  so  firm,  amending  your  constitutions  where  it  may  be  necessary, 
that  not  one  single  cent  shall  ever  be  appropriated  for  any  sectarian 
purposes  whatever.  [Applause.]  The  other  day  I  went  down  to  the 
place  I  used  to  read  about  when  a  boy,  and  where  I  used  to  go  to  see  it 
then,  and  1  saw  where  the  people  of  Boston  in  1775  dumped  the  tea  into 
the  harbor,  because  they  would  not  pay  the  tax  of  only  three  cents  a 
pound.  For  that  three  cents  a  pound  the  Colonies  leaped  to  their 
freedom.  There  is  a  higher  priced  thing — the  preservation  of  Amer¬ 
ican  liberty,  American  common  schools  and  American  unity.  'I'he 
blood  of  your  countrymen  demands  it.  It  demands  your  faithful  ser¬ 
vice,  your  devotion.  It  demands  your  all,  for  a  man  without  a  country 
is  a  man  without  a  God  and  without  a  home.  [Applause.]  There 
upon  our  Pacific  coast,  stretching  from  lower  California  clear  to  Point 
Barrow,  in  Alaska,  we  have  a  coast  which  we  are  determined,  if  God 
gives  us  strength,  shall  be  preserved  and  maintained  thoroughly  and 


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no  MAX  ISM. 


completely  American.  We  do  not  believe  in  surrendering  our  rights  to 
a  foreign  population  inimical  to  our  institutions.  We  say  to  Romau 
Catholics,  if  you  want  to  enjoy  the  blessings  of  religion,  confess  your 
sins  to  God  alone,  without  money  and  without  price.  Jt  was  that  kind 
of  religion  not  dominated  by  a  foreign  spii’itual  despot  and  temporal 
ruler,  that  was  guaranteed  in  the  constitution.  That  declaration  of 
independence  meant  the  releasing  of  spiritual  as  well  as  physical  bond¬ 
age,  and  when  this  country  was  consecrated  it  was  consecrated  to 
liberty  and  Almighty  God,  to  intelligence,  to  education,  and  to  the  sub- 
limest  patriotism  that  could  dwell  in  the  bosom  of  mao. 

We  are  now  sixty  millions  of  people.  When  I  look  at  California, 
when  I  think  of  the  veterans  of  the  Mexican  war,  of  which  I  am  one, 
when  we  conquered  and  by  purchase  and  victory  acquired  a  territory  so 
large,  I  thank  God  that  out  of  that  acquisition  the  stars  of  new  states 
have  flown  to  our  flag,  and  that  we  have  redeemed  that  terrritory  from 
its  solitude  and  savage  life  to  become  the  equal  of  those  which  first 
formed  the  American  Union.  The  good  work  is  going  on  and  on,  and 
the  very  best  bone  and  sinew  of  the  American  people  is  developing  the 
country  and  building  up  civilization — and  our  schoolhouses  are  the  peers 
of  anything  you  have  in  New  England.  For  every  soldier  in  that  war 
there  has  been  taken  out  gold  enough  to  allow  one  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  of  virgin  gold  to  make  a  statuette  of  each  soldier,  and  a  pedestal 
of  silver  of  five  hundred  pounds  in  weight ;  and  that  same  laud,  the 
promised  land  of  our  country,  will  aid  you  here,  you  being  faithful *to 
your  trust,  to  achieve  the  glorious  victories  of  liberty  and  Protestantism 
over  the  enemies  of  freedom  and  of  this  great  republic. 

We  are  carr^ung  forward  the  good  work.  We  are  doing  it,  perhaps, 
in  a  different  manner  from  you,  but  nevertheless,  we  are  moving  upon  a 
grand  line.  When  the  Jesuits  plot,  we  have  got  their  plan  of  battle, 
and  we  will  counterplot ;  when  they  undermine,  we  will  countermine. 
[“Good,  Good,”  and  applause.]  We  know  their  whole  movement.  I 
have  the  entire  work  of  the  Jesuits  themselves,  the  very  ceremonies  of 
initiation,  their  terrible  oaths  they  have  taken,  and  there  is  no  Jesuit 
that  has  ever  been  trusted  with  any  power  who  has  not  consecrated  their 
cause  with  the  blood  of  the  heretic.  Let  me  tell  you  you  have  a  subtle 
enemy,  a  determined  one.  You  seldom  hear  the  enquiry  of  an  Ameri¬ 
can,  “Are*  you  a  Protestant?”  without  a  hesitating,  “Well — .”  You 
never  hear  a  Roman  Catholic  afraid  to  say  that  he  is  one.  But  when 
you  come  to  an  American  with  the  question,  “Are  you  a  Protestant?” 
he  says,  “Yes,  my  father  was  a  Presbyterian,  I  believe,”  and  that  is  all 
he  knows  about  it.  In  San  Francisco  the  guns  of  our  Protestants  were  all 
spiked  ;  the  churches  were  mortgaged  to  Roman  Catholic  banks,  and  not  a 
cent  of  my  money  shall  be  contributed  to  support  any  such  churches. 


THE  PEJUL  OF  OUE  COUNTEY. 


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ISome  paid  their  mortgages,  theu  cut  loose,  aud  now  we  have  got  the  grand 
Methodist  organization,  and  others  moving  along  as  you  are  here,  but  in 
a  different  way.  And  their  churches  are  packed  continuously,  and  there 
is  one  shout  that  will  go  up  from  the  Golden  Gate,  reverberating  over 
the  Rockies  and  Sierras,  that  will  roll  away  beyond  Plymouth  rock.  We 
stretch  out  our  hand  and  take  yours.  We  welcome  your  service  and 
aid  in  this  common  contest,  and  we  trust  in  God,  believing  that  we  shall 
succeed,  that  the  principles  of  a  true  American  government  will  triumph. 
We  welcome  the  fight  and  say,  “Lay  on,  MacDuff,  and  damned  be 
he  who  first  cries,  ‘Hold,  enough  !’  ”  [Applause.] 

You  may  perceive,  my  brethren,  that  I  used  to  be  a  good  Sabbath 
school  scholar  when  a  boy  in  Boston.  I  committed  a  good  portion 
of  the  Bible  to  heart,  and  remember  most  of  it  now,  but  I  carry  out  my 
work  in  my  own  way.  There  is  no  danger  of  our  falling  from  grace. 
We  are  true  to  the  Scriptures.  We  do  not  believe  that  they  should  be 
driven  out  from  the  public  schools  and  placed  in  the  state  prison.  We 
require  our  presidents,  judges,  legislators  and  governors  to  be  sworn 
upon  the  Bible.  Then,  in  the  name  of  God,  why  drive  it  out  of  the 
public  schools?  We  go  into  court  aud  give  our  evidence,  aud  solemnly 
swear  by  what?  By  what  we  have  been  taught  there,  and  anyone  who 
holds  up  his  hand  and  makes  a  cross  with  his  thumb  and  forefinger,  and 
takes  his  oath  in  that  manner,  God  help  his  truth. 

In  looking  over  the  future  near  at  hand,  I  believe  that  we  have  a  most 

dangerous  man  (I  say  it  openly)  in  the  United  States  cabinet.  He  has 

proved  himself  such  in  the  service  of  Rome.  That  man  is  our  present 

minister  of  state.  I  fear  no  contradiction.  [Applause.]  And  this 

man  was  the  cousin  of  Mrs.  General  Sherman.  The  familv  blood  was 

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poisoned  when  William  Tecumseh  married  the  daughter  of  old  Gen.  Tom 
Ewing.  And  I  remember  too,  when  we  come  to  look  at  it,  that  the 
volunteer  counsel  at  the  trial  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  to  defend  Michael 
O’Laughlin,  who  was  selected  to  kill  General  Grant,  was  his  son,  Gen. 

Tom  Ewing,  Jr.  It  is  generally  believed,  though  they  were  more  adroit 
in  covering  up  their  tracks,  (but  we  are  satisfied  in  our  own  minds)  that 
the  instrument  and  tool  used  was  Guiteau,  and  that  James  A.  Garfield 
met  his  death  by  that  same  power. 

It  may  seem  hard  and  strange  to  you  to  speak  these  things  and  strip 
the  whole  thing  open,  ’outlet  us  look  at  this  diseased  serpent  of  corrup¬ 
tion, —  let  us  clean  our  country  of  it.  Let  us  clean  our  gov¬ 
ernment.  [Great  applause.]  And  from  the  constable  to  the 
president,  see  that  there  are  no  advisers  that  owe  allegiauce  to  Rome. 

I  find  that  I  am  getting  hoarse,  but  I  will  say  in  conclusion,  as 
Abraham  Lincoln  said  in  1855,  ‘‘As  long  as  God  gives  me  a  brain  to 
think,  or  a  heart  to  feel,  or  a  hand  to  execute  my  will,”  as  I  have 
repeatedly  said,  and  ovei'  the  heart  of  the  dead  Lincoln  I  have  sworn  it, 

I  will  with  God’s  help  fight  this  thing  through  to  the  end.  [Applause.] 


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